Quote Originally Posted by wereotter View Post
Slight correction here... the reaper is distinct from a necromancer as the little scary friend you see in the trailer isn't a ghost, but instead a voidsent. Voidsent are the former inhabitants of The Thirteenth shard (the one lost to the flood of darkness, and the one we visit briefly in the World of Darkness raid) They were twisted up by the overabunsance of umbral energy and transformed into voidsent similarly to how sineaters were formed by an excess of astral energy on The First.
I know it's a voidsent. I was commenting on necromancers in general in gaming. It's not always a skeleton or zombie or ghost. Sometimes it is some otherworldly eldritch being which is something more like the voidsent.